___ Most Famous Landmarks and Cultural Monuments in the World - Places of Power and Worship

Each of these landmarks is a cultural icon, it may represent an epoch, an area, a belief, a culture, a country or a city, it also may represent more than one of this various meanings.
Click on the image to see the monument's description and a satellite view of the site.

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Luxor, Egypt Luxor was the ancient city of Thebes and once the center and the capital of the ancient Egyptian Empire. It is the site of the ruins of Luxor Temple and the Karnak Temple complex, and the necropolises of the "Valley of the Kings and the Valley of the Queens.

Chichén Itzá, Mexico
was the most important regional capital of the Mayan culture between the years 750 and 1200 AD, the pre-Columbian city is located in the northern center of the Yucatan Peninsula of present-day Mexico

Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey
was a former patriarchal basilica, the largest cathedral in the world for nearly a thousand years.
In 1453, Constantinople (today Istanbul) was conquered by the Ottoman Turks and Sultan Mehmed II ordered the building to be converted into a mosque.

The Executive Residence is the central part of the White House Complex.

The White House
in Washington D.C. is since 1800 the official residence of the President of the United States, the building is recognized as the symbol of the President, of the President's administration, and of the United States.